Many of the questions we face in life are complex and aren't directly addressed by the rules.

So do I say something now or do I wait? Should I take that job or stay put? That's why wisdom is so crucial for our lives.

So how do we develop it?

Today join us as Tim Keller explores how we apply God's wisdom to the complexities of our lives.

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We'll be reading Proverbs chapter 23 verses 17 and 18 and Psalms 73 verses one through 3 and then versus 20 through 26.

Do not let your heart envy sinners,

but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.

There is surely a future hope for you and your hope will not be cut off.

Surely God is good to Israel to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped.

I had nearly lost my foothold, for I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies. When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless

and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. Yet I am always with you. You hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel and afterward you will take me into glory.

Whom have I in heaven but you, and earth has nothing I desire besides you.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. This is the word of the Lord.

We're looking at the book of Proverbs, therefore we're looking at the subject of wisdom.

And the Book of Proverbs has been showing us each week that very basic to the development of wisdom is the ability to understand, manage,

let's say, and redirect channel, as it were, the deep currents of our heart.

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